{"id":466053,"date":"2026-02-10T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466053\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:17:07","slug":"nylanders-status-unclear-for-sweden-olympic-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466053\/","title":{"rendered":"Nylander’s status unclear for Sweden Olympic opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILAN — William Nylander<\/a> did not practice with Team Sweden on Tuesday, and the forward’s status for its opener of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is unclear.<\/p>\n

Sweden, which is looking to win Olympic gold in men’s hockey for the first time since 2006, will host Team Italy on Wednesday at Santagiulia Arena (3 p.m. ET; Peacock, USA, CBC Gem, SN, TSN, CBC).<\/p>\n

“It’s a maintenance thing,” coach Sam Hallam said. “He’s done two full ice practices with us and felt after yesterday a bit sore, so just give him an extra day. And then we’ll see for tomorrow if he’s ready to go. It’s going to be a pretty late decision.”<\/p>\n

Sweden is scheduled to have a morning skate at noon local time (6 a.m. ET) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Nylander has 52 points (18 goals, 34 assists) in 40 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs this season. The 29-year-old missed seven games because of a lower-body injury sustained Jan. 15 but played in Toronto’s three most recent games before the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

“I’m not overly concerned at all. He’s been looking really sharp and good on the ice for two days,” Hallam said. “Felt that we give him (off) today. I mean, it’s short-term, but we’re still in the beginning of it and bigger games coming up, so let’s keep our priorities and focus there.”<\/p>\n

After the Group B opener against Italy, a team with no NHL players on its roster, Sweden will play rival Team Finland on Friday and Team Slovakia the next day.<\/p>\n

The tournament features all 12 teams playing three preliminary games in their respective groups, then all 12 moving on to a single-elimination playoff that will conclude with the gold medal game Feb. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN — William Nylander did not practice with Team Sweden on Tuesday, and the forward’s status for its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-466053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}